[filmscanners] Re: Minolta Dimage Elite II - another faultyunit

["Berry Ives" <yvesberia@earthlink.net>]

on 2/13/02 5:35 PM, Dominik Kacprzak at dominik@arsdigita.com wrote:

> Hi Ralf,
>
> I didn't even get this far.  My scanner consistently produces a light,
> vertical line across the entire slide.  First, I thought that my slide was
> scratched, but after rotating a slide, it became apparent that the line is
> introduced by the scanner.  It happens with or without ICE turned on.  Also,
> I tested ROC and GEM features, they introduced a lot of artifacts on slides,
> I haven't found them useful at all.
>
> It's a bummer, because I liked the other features of this scanner, native
> 16bit scanning, dynamic range, slide loading...  Tomorrow the scanner is
> going back to BhPhoto and I'm going to buy either a Nikon Coolscan IV or
> CanoScan FS-2720, or stick with my old Elite.
>
> - Dominik

Dominik, here is a copy of comments I made some while back regarding my Scan
Dual II.  Is this like your problem?  I had to return it to Minolta, who
replaced some parts, but it took a couple months:

> My scanner just started making a thin band across the long dimension of the
> image, viewable on the monitor and comes out on the print as well.  The band
> has a cyan cast, and it is about 1/32" wide (1 mm) on a full format
> 7x10.5"(18x26cm) print.  I appears consistently about 1" (2.5cm) from the
> edge of the print.

~Berry


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